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Here are some of my Jackson List essays about Ben Ferencz, friend and hero.
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1947: U.S. chief prosecutor Benjamin Ferencz, prosecuting the Einsatzgruppen case at Nuremberg.

2022: Benjamin Ferencz at his home in Florida.

Remembering Nuremberg prosecutor and world law architect Benjamin B. Ferencz, who was born on this date in 1920.

Hearing his voice deploring every aggressive war.

Never mind the Constitution—Congress no longer controls the declaration of war power, according to this former Trump administration official.

The frozen, shocked look on @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social’s face….

“Where is our Alex Butterfield?” misunderstands Watergate. It was the *Senate* (yes, Democratic majority) that in early 1973 created the Ervin Committee. Sen. also got AG nom. Elliot Richardson to agree, condition of confirmation, to appt. a special prosecutor (Archibald Cox).
*Where is our Senate?*

Alexander Butterfield, Who Revealed Nixon Tapes in Watergate Scandal, Dies at 99

Thank you to Alexander Butterfield, conservative Republican, Vietnam combat veteran, honest person, American hero.
#Watergate
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Congratulations!

Part of the history of the U.S. government, including Supreme Court justices, long-recognizing that the 14th Amendment declares the U.S. citizenship of persons born in the U.S.

(Today’s Court will hear arguments on this on 4/1, in Trump v. Barbara.)

#birthrightcitizenship
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Jackson List: United States Citizens By Birth Robert Houghwout Jackson was born in 1892 in the family farmhouse in Spring Creek, Pennsylvania. His parents also had been born in that area, as had their parents, and so forth, back to ancestors w…

Justice Robert H. Jackson had no birth certificate. But he knew that under the U.S. Constitution, his U.S. birth made him a U.S. citizen. He wrote that privately about Porter Pemberton, & publicly about Fred Korematsu.

Here’s a new #JacksonList post with details.
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I wonder how she and her husband Charles Black (who you properly mentioned above) spoke in later years about the YLS men’s treatment of Ellen Peters?

The one was ____? (Not Bickel, I think.)

“Unconditional surrender” is relinquishment of sovereignty & territory. E.g., in May 1945, when Nazi Germany surrendered unconditionally, Germany ceased to exist. The land became Allied-occupied. The German people became prisoners of those occupiers.

The U.S. today seeks the end, for now, of Iran?

Kristi Noem’s seeming crimes are more domestic than international. So maybe not a Nuremberg. But maybe state prosecution, in Minnesota, for instance. And maybe, soon enough, U.S. prosecution by a reconstructed Department of Justice.

Envoy Noem needs to consult now, for 2029 if not soon, a good criminal defense lawyer.

I think that line, or something like it, was Jack Nicholson's in "A Few Good Men."

"From Controversy to Conversation" Talking the Hard History of Baltimore's "Confederate Monuments," March 5

A great success story: @marthasjones.bsky.social on Baltimoreans putting what once was a block that elevated Chief Justice Roger B. Taney to much higher uses.
#DredScott #slavery #equality #liberty
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March 4, 1933: Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes administering the presidential oath to Franklin D. Roosevelt.

March 4, 1933, United States greatness:
Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes administers the presidential oath to Franklin D. Roosevelt.
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Bad: Lawyers who still work law firms that capitulated to Trump administration threats.

Worse: U.S. Department of Justice lawyers who are following political orders—on/off/on again—to defend illegal attacks on non-capitulating law firms.

(And great: Those stand-up law firms/lawyers.)

I recall 1976, dimly, as “Here we are/aren’t we great to be this old?!/look at all this red, white, and blue.”
It would be better this time, 2026, to study, teach, and debate 1776 and U.S. history since—what have “we” been to what are we now. Use this anniversary as an opportunity to become smarter.

I worked in a SCIF for seven years—locks, guards, walls, no windows, very controlled access,… real national security.

214. The Court's (Selective) Impatience is a Vice The only theme uniting Monday night's twin grants of emergency relief is the Republican appointees' willingness to upend long-settled limits on the Court's power when, but only when, they *want* to.

As I explain via the latest “One First,” the only theme that unites the Supreme Court’s (unrelated) grants of emergency relief Monday night in the California transgender student and New York redistricting cases is what might be called “selective judicial impatience.”

And that’s *not* a good thing:

And ugly.

Super, factual, important brief.

Yesterday I filed an #AmicusCuriae brief at #SCOTUS in the birthright citizenship case. It presents stories of 3 families of Japanese ancestry--w/o legal allegiance to the USA--to show citizenship derives from birth on US soil, not parental loyalties.
#lawsky #skystorians
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In 1945-1946, the United States & allied nations, prosecuting Nazi war criminals at Nuremberg, established that military aggression was an international crime.

This evening, the 2025 U.S. film "Nuremberg" was to be shown at Arasbaran Cultural Center in Tehran, Iran.

Now canceled?--websites down.

Under U.S. law plus historical practice, this is basis for a serious national security crimes investigation. It appears to be probable cause for arrest.

But now it’s just Friday night.

At least “This part of my job is painful.”

No creature, including a person or a dog, should be hanged. But cameras do sometimes capture something that looks to be an ashamed, “hangdog look.”

Bang up job by the DOJ lawyer here

Court: So you can drop them off wherever and as long as you don't know someone is literally standing there waiting to shoot, that's fine?

Defense counsel: "In short, yes."